Belkhariya vanshavali

Historical record

The line named in the Oudh records

The gazetteer names Balbhaddar Dikhit as Ghaibar Sah’s great-grandfather and Jaswant as his father. The generation between Balbhaddar and Jaswant is unnamed in this passage. The 1878 Patti account and the Golden Book call Ram Deo a descendant of Ghaibar Sah, with intervening generations unspecified. The 1929 manual’s Parenda entry also calls Jaswant the grandson of Balbhaddar and leaves the intermediate name unstated.

1. Balbhaddar Dikhit
2. Generation unnamed in this passage
3. Jaswant
4. Ghaibar Sah

Historical record

From Ghaibar Sah to Ramdeo and Bhairon Singh

The 1878 Patti account and Nevill’s 1904 gazetteer describe Ramdeo as a later descendant of Ghaibar Sah. They do not name each generation between them. Nevill p. 109 places Bhairon Singh sixth in descent from Ramdeo, leaving the intermediate names unstated.

Nevill names Bhairon’s sons Bhurang and Naurang. Bhurang retained the ancestral estate, while Naurang received Para and Hamidpur. Bhurang’s sons were Ban Singh and Salivahan. Ban’s sons Kharak Sen and Nazan Deo are the named ancestors of the Umri and Antu branches respectively. The same gazetteer records a tradition that Durga Das, Ramdeo’s second son, founded the separate Garwara branch.

Historical record

Umri and Antu estate succession

Nevill records that the hereditary Umri title was recognised in December 1864 and a sanad was granted to Raja Mahipal Singh. His son Raja Jagat Bahadur Singh held Umri from 1872. The 1880 album records Jagat as the hereditary Raja of Amri (Umri), with nine villages. Lethbridge’s 1893 entry identifies Lal Krishna Pal Singh as Jagat’s son and heir. The later printed pedigree below supplies names between Kharag Sen and Mahipal (Mahpal in the chart).

For Antu, Nevill names Sarabdawan Singh, who succeeded his brother Lal Bahadur Singh and received a sanad, followed by Sarabdawan’s son Babu Surajpal Singh. The government’s 1930 register names Babu Bankateshwar Rawan Bahadur Pal Singh for Antu and Amerpur and Raja Kishan Pal Singh for Umri. The 1939 Thacker directory lists Bankateshwar with Antu, Kanpa and Amerpur and uses the spelling Kishun Pal for the Umri entry. Neither list establishes how Bankateshwar was related to Surajpal.

Comparing accounts

The 1929 printed Umri pedigree

The United Provinces Manual of Titles (1929, pp. 264–265) supplies the longest named sequence located in this search. Its chart links Balbhaddar Dikhit to Jaswant Singh with an unnamed gap, then lists Ghaibar Sah, Ramdeo and Ramdeo’s sons Dalpat Sah and Durga Das. From Dalpat it gives Ragho Chand, Dalip Sah, Madhukar Sen, Mangal Sen and Bhairon Singh. Nevill counts Bhairon’s descent from Ramdeo. The manual counts from Dalpat and says Dalpat settled in Partabgarh, while the 1878 gazetteer preserves an account in which he was killed. The name Dalip Sah later in the 1929 chart is a separate entry.

The manual follows Bhairon through Bhurang, Ban Singh and Raja Kharag Sen to Raja Mohan Singh, Raja Bhikam Singh, Raja Makhdum Singh, Raja Durga Prasad Singh, Raja Mahpal Singh, Raja Jagat Bahadur Singh and Raja Kishanpal Singh. Its side branches identify Durga Das with Raja Bazar in Jaunpur, Naurang with Para and Hamidpur, Salivahan with Sarai and Mangapur, and Nazan Deo with Antu.

The manual dates Kishanpal’s accession to 11 August 1910 and names his son Lal Sant Bahadur Singh as heir. The 1893 Golden Book calls Jagat’s heir Lal Krishna Pal Singh. The name forms are retained as printed. The 1974 judgment below links the Krishnapal spelling to the same heir named in the manual.

Historical record

The Umri family in the 1974 judgment

The Allahabad High Court’s 29 January 1974 judgment records that Raja Krishnapal Singh of Umri had two sons, Sant Bahadur Singh and Lal Pratap Bahadur Singh. Sant, the elder, inherited the land in dispute and was married to Rani Vishwa Kumari Devi. The court records Sant’s death in 1947 and a 1948 arbitration involving the Rani and his brother.

The shared heir’s name and the Umri identification support reading the manual’s Kishanpal and the court’s Krishnapal as variant names for the same man. The judgment documents the inheritance of the specific disputed land. It does not establish a ceremonial accession or a descent to any present-day family.

Family record

Kashyap and Kaushik gotra

The Kshatriyavamshavali Dikhit entry gives Kashyap gotra. The family compilation repeats that broader description while identifying its own family as Kaushik. The archive preserves both at the level each source describes.

The family also names Belha Mai and Baba Belkharnath among its devotional affiliations. The Dikhit entry in the genealogy book names Durga and Samaveda. The separate Kaushik Vishvamitra document gives the family’s literary and religious context for the Kaushik name.